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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-06-08

Her art is an iuspiration-it was born in her, is
part of her being and she herself must often be
unconscious Of the spirit which animates her
work-Sda Francisco CAL
Jeifreys Lewis is the greatest actress living in
her line Of characters. she has Aimee's power
of suggestion, Adelaide Nelson's sweet woman
" softness and Rstor's grand dramatic force
san Francisco Post.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-06-08
BUSINESS CARDS
WILLIAM jackson,
PEASANTS HURST

A TTuHNEl At LAW. Office in Rock lsiaIi
y National Bank Building, Rock island, Il.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-06-08

F., FTuRNEYs AND CoUNSELLoRS AT Law
Il Office in Masonic Temple block, over Rec X Is
and National Ban h, 6JckI stand, III,
sep ~ dwtf
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-06-08
Z PER GENT MORTGAGES

/ OTIS FOR SALE ON TW ENTY
Hserond and Twenty fourth streets bv
m2-1m GEORGES MIXTER
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1887-07-22
aandcuifed 10 His Sweetheart,

Among the attendants at COM
mencement is a charming young
lady from an adjacent county, who
is q great favOrite in Athens. She
is visiting a downtown family
On Sunday night last handsome
young professional, whom we call
DR.. Hancock, called upon Miss
Amanda Spriggins (which is not
the lady's real name) There were
in the parlor a pair Of handcuffs.-
DR.. Hancock iestingly proposed
that they suffer themselves to have
their wrists linked together, to this
proposition Miss Spriggins readily
consented. The handouts were
spring locks and soon had the
young couple firmly bound togeth-
er. After a while they became
weary of this bondage, but discov-
cred to their CONSERVATION that the
handouts could not be loOsened.-
1t was then discovered that the key
was in the possession of a young
man who had gone on a visit TO
Oconee county, and was not ex-
pected home until next day. The
young couple decided to make the
best of their situation and spend
the night sitting up. Fortunately,
however, just as the clock struck IL
the possessor of the key CHANGED to
return, and the handouts were re-
moved.-AhenS (Gd.) Banner.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1887-07-22
LYNCHED IN A COURT ROOM.

EVANSVILLE, md, July ia
lynchlng occurred at Union City,
Ky, yesterday. Early in the week
a negro named John Thomas com.
mitted a brutal assault on a little
white girl. a posse was organized,
and after n long search he was
found at Humboldt and brought
back. His preliminary trial was
held yesterday.
\ large, angry and determined
crowd filed the court room. He
was positively identified by bis vic
tim. At this point some one in the
crowd shouted "Thats enough
Let's put him where he'll do no
more devils work.
Then the entire court room of
men numbering, perhaps, two hun
bred enraged citizens, rose to their
feet and, with an impulsive rush,
surged over the posse of officers,
sweeping them aside. and, despite
their desperate but futile efforts to
save Thomas, the maddened throng
seized the now trembling and panic
stricken wretch.
In an instant a good rope was
produced, and a moose deftly pre-
pared Slipped about the prisoners
neck. Willing hands threw an end
of the rope over a beam in the
court room, and then the crowd
walked away, leaving the body
swinging.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1887-07-22
Is This True ?

II is said that on the very last
moment of the late extra session Of
the General Assembly of Virginia
tnat n resolution was passed direct
ing the Superintendent Of Public
Printing to have $4,000 copies of
the stenographic report of the do.
inrs of the Debt Committee and
Commission printed. 1t is further
said that large number of these
reports was needed by w. w.
Scott, secretary OF the Democratic
State Central Committee, for dis
tribution as a campaign document
this fall.
More than the above, it has been
SAID that when the Legislature or
dered such a bulk of matter of no
value TO be printed at the cost of
Virginia, some good Democrat
asked why so many copies were
wanted. The reply was that
"Dred" Scott wanted them.
1t is understood that while only
three copies of this stenographlc
report have been sent to members
ofthe General Assembly, thousands
of them have been boxed up and
sent to some one in Alexandria,
Virginia-the alleged residence of
Hon. j. S. Barbour.-Richmond
Truth.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1887-07-22
Struck BY Lightning and Killed.

WHEELING, w. VA, July 10
The excessive heat eliminated last
night in the most terrific storm
ever witnessed here. The rain and
wind were heavy, demolishing
shade trees and fences, and for an
hour there was not seconds in
PERMISSION between the flashes of
lightning. 1t was believed the on
" damage was the demolition OF
one wall of a two.stOry brick house
on eighth street, belonging to ia
cob Snyder, Jr., but reports from
the country today show this was
but a triiling part. At Grafton
the lightning was the most severe
ever experienced. Mrs. w. 7. Carr
was sitting in the room with her
three children, when the house was
struck by lightning, which set fire
to the bed in the room. NeighbOrs
running to extinguish the flames
found that Mrs. Carr had been in
stantly killed, and the three chill
dren burned by the electric bolt.
The children's injuries are not so
serious, though one of them is Sc
verely burned. The residence of Mr..
George Diem was also struck, and a
large hole knocked in it. The in
mates were slightly stunned. A
stable of &. Briedenstein, at Mar
tins Ferry, was struck and burned.
The fine barn of G.. Fisher, at Elm
Grove, was demolished loss 50, 900,
insurance ~, 400. The barn Of
James Garven, on the Fairmont
road, was burned; loss $4,000, in
surance $3.50. The barn and two
stables of Charles Hazlett, near
Garyen's was also destroyed loss
$1,000, insurance 81 200.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1887-07-22
PRECOCIOUS DEPRAVITY.
A COLORED GIRL, TWELVE YEARS
OLD, SENTENCED TO
DE HANGED.

CHARLESTON, s. g., July H.
At Barnwell yesterday, Judge IIud-
son sentenced Axey Cherry, a col
ored girl twelve years old, to be
hanged the third Friday in Septem-
Der, for the murder of the infant Of
Mr.. Amos Williams, of Allendale,
in Barnville county. The child
was sent by her mother to act as
nurse for the Williams baby. She
poked around the house and attend
ed to her duties in so negligent a
manner that she had to be constant
" scolded. After a scOlding one
day she was overheard muttering
to herself that she was not going
to bother with that baby much
more. A few days after this, con-
centrated lye was used in securing
the floor, and when Mrs. Williams
left the room for a few minutes she
told Axey that the I've was poison
GUS and that she musn't touch It,.
On her return, Mrs. Williams was
Mortified to find her baby's mouth
full of concentrated lye. Axey ran
out of the house, saying as she left,
81 don't reckon I'll have to nurse
that baby much longer now" The
young murderess all through her
trial seemed to have no idea of the
terrible nature of her deed, and
when she was sentenced to be
hanged, she gazed stupidity at the
Judge, and grinned as she played
with the buttons on her dress. AS
she was being carried back to jail
she saw her father, and made an
effort to 90 to him. She cried for
the first time when she was told
that she could not 90 home, but
must 90 back to jail to await the
day for her execution.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1887-07-22
Fearful Storm In Baltimore.

BALTIMORE, July 19.-The storm
of yesterday afternoon was follow
ed by another of almost equal force
about 3 o'clock this morning. Sew.
eral houses on Cumberland street,
near Gilmore, were struck by light
ming and unroofed, and their con-
tents almost entirely destroyed by
the rain. Harlem Park, the most
beautiful resort within the city,
this morning presents an appear
ance of desolation. Nearly all the
trees are damaged, and many en-
tirely destroyed. Unroofed houses
are seen all over the western sec
ton of the city, and the aggregate
damage heavy, though individual
loses are comparatively light. At
the City Marine Hospital, down
the Patapsco river, the hail of yes
terday afternoon broke all the win
dows on the south side, and the
entire building was flooded. The
rainfall for twelve hours, ending at
1 O'Clock this morning, was one
and three.eighths inches.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1887-07-22
DEATH OF EX-SENATOR HUNTER.
ONE OF vIRGINIA's MOST EMINENT
CITIZENS PASSES AWAY
HIS CAREER.

RICHMOND, VA, July 19.-lnfor-
nation was received here this even
ing that Hon. II. NJ. 7. Hunter died
at his home, Fount Hill, Essex coun.
ty. Yesterday. Mr.. Hunter was one
of VIrginia's most eminent citizens
for many years before and during
the late war. He was born in 1909.
lie served several terms in the ma
tional House of Representatives, be-
ing elected speaker Of that body in
1899. subsequently he was elect
ed United States Senator and made
chairman of the Senate Finance
Committee in 1S49, which position
he held till the opening of the war.
lie gave Douglas close run for the
presidential nomination at the Ma.
tional Democratic Convention at
Charleston in 1860. During the
war he served as Confederate sec
rotary of state and Confederate
senator. He was also a member Of
the Peace Commission which met
Abraham Lincoln in Hampton
Roads. After the war he was elect
ed treasurer of Virginia, holding
that office for several terms, after
which he retired to private life.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1887-07-22
A Story that Passes Belief.

CHICAGO, July 1S.-News of a
most inhuman murder comes from
Riverside, Ark. 1t seems that a
man living near that place had a
step-son, five years old,) whom he
greatly disliked. He was known
to treat him most cruelty, beating
him in a terrible manner, once put
ting one of the little fellows eyes
out while whipping him. A few
days ago he beat the child in hor.
rible manner, and then tied him by
the wrists to a stake IN the hot sun,
without food or water, until he
died. Just how long the child was
there is not known. But the cords
at the wrists had cut into the flesh,
and the wounds were filled with
worms. The fiend, finding his vic
tim was dead, armed himself and
took to the woods. The child's
mother seemed Indifferent over the
affair.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1887-07-22
Virginia Peabody Scholarship.

1t was asce, tanned to-day at the
State Department of Education that
the examination for Virginia Pea.
body scholarship in the Nashville
Normal College will take place at the
Farmville, Fredericksburg, Stras-
burg and Pearisburg summer insti'
tutes. Virginia IS entitled TO eight
students at the Nashville Normal
College the next session. The
graduates from there last session
were Martha Ii. Chapman, of Fair
tax Courthouse; Martha w. Coul.
ling, of Richmond Byrdie l.. Hill,
OF Richmond; J. Willard Brlster,
of Petersburg; Asa &. Parr, OF Je;.
fersonton, aud Philip n. Tyler, OF
Onancock. The graduates from
this college are required to teach
in the public schools Of Virginia
not less than two years.-RichmOnd
State, 18th.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1887-07-22

Those papers which have been
making party capital out of the
defalcation of Levi Bacon, financial
clerk of the patent Office, who was
appointed under Republican adj
mlnistration, and who was retained
by the present one, can now con-
template the forgery Of his fraud
uIency, o. j. Harvey, who was ap.
pointed chief of division of horse
claims in June 1885. He had pass.
ed 46 claims for horses which had
no existance, and had PIG other
claims prepared to be passed
through in like manner. Who
would have thought that we should
have the like of this so soon from
the party which has spent years
denOuncing the Republicans for
dishonesty.-Highldnd Recorder.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1887-07-22
She Changed Her Mind.

The Richmond state of Saturday
SAYS: ga runaway couple who
came from one of the counties below
Richmond arrived in this city yes
terday on their way to Washington
to get married. When they reach
ed the Union depot the young lady,
who seemed to be in her teens, COM
mcnced to cry, saying that she
wanted to go back home. Her low.
er, a young man hardly twenty.One
years ofage, begged her to go on
to Washington with HIM, but she
would not 90 and so they both
went back home. Tine young man
made no cOncealment of the fact
that he and his sweetheart were
matrimOnially inclined, but he
took particular pains not to tell
his name.p
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1887-07-22
Town Destroyed.

st. LOUIS, July ia special
from El Paso, Texas, says: Close
upon the heels of the news Of the
earthquake at Bayispe, come the
details of a still greater calamity at
Bacarac, a town twenty miles from
Bavispe. 1t had, before the catas.
trophe, 1000 inhabitants, and
when Bavispc was destroyed the
town was deadly shaken up and
most of the inhabitants fled. Since
then, the town of Bacariac has been
visited by a succession of shocks
that have reduced tire town to
ruins. The most of the people es-
capped as they fled to the country
terror.stricken on the first distur-
bance."
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1887-07-22
Mrs. SIinker BaiIed.

LYNcHBURG, VA, July 1S.-
Mrs. Elmina ID. Slinker, of Snow.
vile, Pulaski county, Va, who was
indicted in the United States Dis.
trict Court in Abingdon last week
for depositing obscene matter in
the mails, was bailed in the sum of
$4,000 for her appearance at the
next term of the Court, her hus.
band giving bond. Her friends in
the North have raised $1,000 to
employ counsel to assist in her de.
fence, and the trial will be one of
great public interest owing to the
lewd and laScivious character of
publications the woman is charged
with circulating.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1887-07-22
A Cool Burglar.

A young lady visiting a friends
house in Portland, Maine, on Mon.
day night was awakend by a noise
in her room, when a burglar put
his hand over her mouth, kissed
her, and said: "Keep still, sis; |
won't hurt you. All | want is
these trinkets." She managed to
arouse the house, when, with a pc.
lite "Good night, Sis" he sprang
from a window, having in a bundle
every portable article Of value in
the room and sum of money. lie
left his hat behind, and it was hung
on the rack in the front hall, to be
given TO the police as clue. The
family then retired and the burglar
returned and stole the hat.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1887-07-22
She Was an Offensive Partisan.

WASHINGTON, July 12.-Miss
Alice Underwood, a daughter of
the late Judge john G. Underwood,
Of Alexandria, Va, was dismissed
on Friday last from the Pension
Office. Coupled with the notice
of her dismissal was a letter ex-
planning that she had spoken light
" of the Commissioner Of Pensions
and of the Cleveland administra.
ton. Such a course Of procedure
is something unheard of in depart
mental customs. Miss Underwood
denied the charge, and asked for a
hearing. She said that while she
was a Republican, and always had
been, she had never spoken of her
supe:iOrS in any manner except as
became a lady. She was denied a
hearing or any other explanation
whatever. Miss Underwood's par.
ents are bot dead. She is entirely
dependent upon her own efforts
for support.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1887-07-22

1t is a prominent trait in Mr..
Blaines character that he is an
American all the time. lie believes
in the inspirations and destiny of
the great Republic of North Amer
lea, and next to his own country he
believes in advancing the interests
of all the people Of the Western
continent. 1t was this sentiment
that controlled him while Secretary
of State. His aim and ambition
were to unite the governments of
South America and the govern
ments OF North America by COM
mercial ties and stronger political
sympathieS, believing that the in
terests of the respective countries
were involved in reciprocal favors
and closer associations in business
policies. 1t is his intense Ameri-
canism that makes him a favorite
with a large portion Of his own
people, and this taken in cOnnec-
ton with the enlightened views Of
administrative policy eflecting our
immediate country and the agencies
to be invoked to promote the hap.
piness and prosperity OF the people,
present him as the foremost states.
man Of his day. No man now liv-
ing has so strong a hold upon the
affections of the masses-nO man
who can command so much earnest
enthusiasm and sincere devotion ;
and no man who would be so ar.
Gently and energetically supported
for the highest position IN the coun-
try. Brilliant, bold, and aggres-
sive, he represents the intellection,
the courage and the daring Of the
American people more fully and
completely than any other citizen,
and would receive a larger popular
vote for the Presidency than any
candidate who could he named.-
IdHcB Hiy1iuinU.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1887-07-22
APPALLING DISASTER.
TWO TRAINS COLLIDE AND ARE IN.
sTANTLY WRAPPED IN FLAMES.

TWO TRAINS COLLIDE AND ARE IN
sTANTLY WRAPPED IN FLAMES.
ST. THOMAS, ONT, July l0.-A
terrible accident occurred at the
crossing of the Grand Trunk Rail
way and Michigan Central Railway
in this city about seven o'clock
this evening, in which several lives
we're lost under the most horror
ing circumstances.
An excursion train on the Grand
Trunk Railway, from Port Stanley,
ran into a passing freight train on
the Michigan Central road made
up of number of cars laden with
oil.
The engine crashed into one OF
these cars, bursting the tank, Tue
oil from which instantly took fire
and burned with great iiefceness,
communicating to the ears on both
trains, aud extending to Grlnlns
wareh ,use. coal and lime sheds,
adjoining the track on the West,
and John CampbelPs dwelling, on
the East, all of which were burned
to the ground, with their contents.
Engineer DonneIy. Of the excnr-
sion train, Was buried in the wreck.
His fireman jumped, and escaped
with slight injuries.
The forward car OF the excursion
train was filed with passengers,
who made frantic efforts to escape,
but, Notwithstanding hundreds OF
brave and willing hands were i'm
medlately mt work to assist in their
rescue. number lost their lives
and will be burned beyond recog.
milton before their bodies can be
got out Of the wreck.
At s o'clock, when thousands OF
people were crowding around the
burning pile, one of the oil tanks
on the cars suddenly exploded.
Hundreds of persons were thrown
to the ground with great force by
the shock, and burning oil beng
thrown over them in all directions,
many persons we're severely II not
fatally injured.
At half.past s o'clock nine bodies
we're taken out burned to a crisp
and totally unacceptable.
FOURTEEN BODIES RECOVERED.
ST. THOMAS, ONT, July 16.-Ihe
work of recovering bodies from the
wreck was continued all night. 80
far fourteen bodies have been tax.
en- from the ruins. 1t is stated
that Engineer DOnnelly was lntox'
icated at the time of the accident.
An inquest is now being held. The
track is clear and traffic has been
resumed.
The number Of injured is said to
foot up 100, but such is the excite
ment that the names and extent oil
their injuries are unattainable at
present. The loss TO the railroad
company will amount to SlO,OOO'
} and the loss by Ere to $4,000.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1887-07-22

Mr.. John l.. Lee, commonwealth 8
attorney of Amherst county, and
Col. Q. b. Christian, who was de.
feated for that position at the May
election, we're arrested on July 13,
on the charge of being about to en-
gage in a deal. The examination
before Justice Loving in Lynchbnrg
developed the fact that Col. Chris.
tian has sent a challenge, which
Mr.. Lee refused 70 accept.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1887-07-22

Marshall, Miss, boasts of a baby
II months old that whistles. Bat.
tie Creek has got a baby boy 8
years old that spends all his pen
MES for cigars, and has been known
to smoke five in one day. He will
steal a pipe and beg passers for
smoking tobacco. The boy has a
perfect mania for tobacco that de-
veloped itself before he could talk
when the youngster would crawl
up to his fathers clothes and steal
cigars out of his pockets to smoke.
He wears dresses, and is small for
his age.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1887-07-22
ELECTIONS THIS FALL,

We are to have few elect ions this
year. Both parties can rest for the
great struggle of 1888.
Maryland, Massachusetts,, Ken.
lucky, Iowa, and Ohio will elect
governors next fall. Legislatures
are to be chosen by these states,
and also by Virginia, New York,
and New Jersey. New York and
Pennsylvania will elect minor state
officers.
The most exciting contests ofthe
year, except in Virginia, will, prob
ably be the prohibition elect .ons in
Texas and Tennessee. Oregon ls
also to vote on this question:, but
the campaign in that state is mild
compared to that in either Texas or
Tennessee.
Only three of the legislatures to
be chosen this year will have the
election of United States sena ors.
These are the legislatures of Iowa,
Kentucky, and Virginia.
The legislature of Kentucky will,
of course, be democratic and elect
a democrat to succeed Mr.. Beck.
That gentleman desires to be his
own successor, but there are sever
al strong aspirants for the senate
rial toge, and it may be that the
"canny Scotchman" will be left at
home.
Iowa will be strongly republican,
and the successor of James f. Will
son is to be selected. Like Mr..
Beck, Mr.. Wilson will find a num-
Der OF strong men seeking to fill his
place, and, as he has aroused some
strong antagonisms, there may be
a new senator from Iowa.
In Virginia there will be a fierce
battle. Four years ago, under the
skillful leadership of James s. Bar
bOur, the Democrats succeeded in
Wrestling Virginia from the Repub.
licans. Mr.. Barbour's desire to
come to the Senate was we'll known,
and 1t was practically agreed that,
in the event of winning, this desire
should be gratifed. But when the
legislature met John w. Daniel,
whom Mr.. Barbour had elected to
the House entered the race and was
elected to the Senate.
The outrageous mismanagement
of public affairs both by the gov
ernor and the legislature has dis
gusted the people Of Virginia to
such an extent that last year, in
the congressional elections, the Re-
publicans carried the State by ma
iorlties aggregatiug over twenty
thousand. The miserable failures
made since that time to settle the
debt question have added to and
intensified the Observation-Disclosures
tiOnal Republican.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1887-07-22

BUFFALO, y. y, July 9.-The
veteran who was u substitute for
Grover Cleveland in the late Civil
war is Geo. Brinski, now an inmate
of the Soldiers Home at Bath, N.
y, and has not long to live. At.
tention was attracted to him by a
latter which he wrote the cOmman-
der Of the Grand Army post in
Des MOines, Ia. In this letter he
said: "President Cleveland has
never fulfilled his promise to me in
regard to paying me for going as
his substitute. After being asked
for assistance, he has let me live in
the poorhouse, and | am now in the
Soldiers Home at Bath, totally un-
able to do anything.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1887-07-22

maximum of 1923 degrees, and the
only day in any month since the
weather bureaus establishment in
which higher temperature than to.
day was recorded was the 9TH of
September, 1881, when the mercury
reached 10j degrees. There were
several cases Of prostration, and
five of them are known to have re.
suited fatally. \ shower of ram
in the afternoon cooled the atmOs.
phere considerably.
Of the fifteen sunstrOkes which
occurred today several were serious,
and two fatal.